AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS 



counted intensive agriculture, whereas at the pres- 

 ent time more than six hundred marks per hec- 

 tare are sometimes invested. The following fig- 

 ures have been given to represent the amount of 

 operating capital per hectare required to carry on 

 agriculture in Germany. The amount varying 

 in the different parts of the country and in the 

 different lines of production. 1 



Very intensive farming more than 600 marks per hectare 



Intensive farming between 400 and 600 marks per hectare 



Medium intensive farming " 300 and 400 marks per hectare 



" extensive " " 200 and 300 marks per hectare 



Extensive farming under 200 marks per hectare 



While these figures for the amount of money 

 invested per acre, in agricultural production, in 

 European countries are not exactly comparable 

 with those for the United States, it is clear that 

 our agriculture is much less intensive than that of 

 Germany and of England. 



Section III. Population. The aggregate 

 population of Continental United States in 1900, 

 was 75,994,575- Of this total thirty-eight and 

 fouiHenths per cent, were engaged in gainful oc- 

 cupations. Of all persons ten years of age and 

 over, fifty and three-tenths per cent, or 29,285,- 

 922, were engaged in gainful occupations. Of 

 the male population ten years of age or over, 

 eighty per cent, were engaged in gainful occu- 

 pations ; while only eighteen and eight-tenths per 



1 Prof. Dr. Werner, Berlin, Der Betrieb der Deutschen 

 Landwirtschaft, p. 74. 



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